Meet Steph Whitehouse

Compassionate, gentle, and culturally safe counselling for baby loss and grief. Walking alongside parents, partners, and whānau with warmth, dignity, and care.

A Gentle Space to Be Heard

Steph Whitehouse is a student counsellor specialising in baby loss, grief, and the emotional complexities that can follow experiences such as miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss, TFMR, fertility challenges, and pregnancy after loss.

She offers a calm and compassionate space where people can speak openly, honour their baby, and move through grief at their own pace without pressure or expectation.

Steph’s approach is grounded in trauma-informed practice, narrative therapy, cultural safety, and deep respect for each person’s story. Her work is guided by the belief that grief is not something to “fix,” but something to be witnessed, supported, and gently held.

Culturally Safe Practice

Counselling that respects whakapapa, identity, spirituality, values, and worldview.

Inclusive Care

Supporting individuals, couples, LGBTQIA+ families, blended families, and whānau.

Steph’s Approach

Trauma-Informed Care

Support that prioritises emotional safety, choice, collaboration, and gentle pacing.

Compassionate Support

A space where grief is welcomed without judgement or expectation.

Lived Understanding

Steph’s work is shaped not only by professional training, but also by her own lived experience of baby loss and grief.

Her personal journey has given her a deep understanding of the heartbreak, uncertainty, and isolation that can accompany loss, as well as the courage it takes to seek support and continue forward through grief.

While Steph does not centre her own story in the counselling space, it informs the compassion, steadiness, and understanding she brings to her work each day.

Honouring Culture, Identity, and Whānau

Steph is committed to creating a culturally safe, mana-enhancing space that honours the identities, values, beliefs, and lived experiences of every client.

Her practice upholds the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and welcomes people from all backgrounds, including Māori, Pasifika, multicultural, LGBTQIA+, faith-diverse, and blended families.